permit because men doe use and abuse his holy Name for a pretext to sweare covenant and make devout shewes in hypocrisie and are onely selfe-willed in the knowledge of his Name and will and useth his Name onely to slander and forge complaints and accusations against others insomuch that one brother hath onely despised and contemned another for the knowledge of his Name whereas in his knowledge he ought to seeke his good in Love and goe before him with an holy life 319. What are the Titular Christians now better then Turkes and Heathens When as now they live as Turkes and worse then Turkes and Heathens Where is the Christian and Evangelicall fruits 320. Every one saith It will be * We shall have an happy peacefull time Our Priviledges Liberties shall be setled and all reformed c. Good when this Evill or grievance is blowne over but I declare unto you in true knowledge that it shall not be Good but onely worse and worse except that every one doth turne into himselfe and incline his heart and minde to Love Concord and Unity else one People shall devoure another and the Nations shall consume desolate and destroy themselves and there shall be such a lewd and wicked world that they shall be unworthy to be called Men. 321. This they shall doe to one another and there shall be a generall mixture and confusion of People in the strife * Note no party better then another till the Anger of God doth fulfill and satiate its enkindled fury and the Nations bring themselves into deepest destruction and misery Then shalt thou see and learne to know thy selfe what thou hast been in thy pride when thou art naked and shalt seeke the Lord in thy misery and see what evill thou hast done to thy selfe 322. Therefore my Loving Brethren Seeke onely the * The experimētall indwelling knowledge of Christ attained onely in the New-birth Pearle all yee who have a minde to escape the Anger of God doe not looke one upon the life of another but upon his owne for 't is not said any longer Dispute but either turne or perish 323. The Time of disputing and prating is out yee can never come further with disputing but with the Regeneration in the Spirit of Christ you shall reach and obtaine the Pearle so that you shall never need dispute and contend 324. Let every one be in good earnest and seeke himselfe in himselfe and see what he is and thinke with himselfe how he may seeke the good of his brother in Love let him depart onely from covetousnesse and pride and be contented with food and rayment and set his trust upon God who giveth raine and blessing 325. Wee take with us Nothing from this world why doe wee wrangle and contend about that which is vaine and foole away that which is everlasting Note it must come to this passe or in truth it shall yet be worse and that People that will not ayme at this marke must be wholly consumed and devoured sheweth the Spirit of Wonders 326. This Loving Sirs and Brethren in Christ who reade and use my Writings I have imparted to you upon consideration of my * D. Balthasar Tilken Adversary and exhort you as a Brother and also my Adversary that you would compare my Writings with the holy Scripture but in the Scripture seeke nothing else but the Fatherly love-Love-heart of Jesus Christ then shall you well finde from what Spirit I have written 327. But he that hath not a minde to doe this let him let my Writings alone for I have written nothing for him I have writ them for my selfe not minding how it should goe know not also how it comes about that they be so spread and wonder as well as you at what the most High doth 328. Marke it I pray and become seeing for the day dawneth if you will learne to understand my Writings aright then you shall be freed from all Contention and learne to know your selves yet the bare Letter is not able to doe it but the living Spirit of Christ onely the way is faithfully shewn you 329. Now doe what you will the harvest is at hand that every one shall enjoy what he hath gathered into his Barn I speake from the bottome of my heart in all seriousnesse in my knowledge given to me of God and commend me into your brotherly love in the Precious Name of Jesus Christ 3 July A. D. 1621. 330. Shout unto the Lord all Lands and Praise him all People for his Name goeth over all Mountaines and Hills He springeth up as a plant and goeth forth in Wonders Who will hinder this Hallelu-jah FINIS
come also under the government of the Ravens Property and are brought into the government of this world for they are also with Adam gone forth out of the Ark to behold and prove this evill corrupt world and live therein but when their spirit can finde no rest in the earthly Dominion then they come againe before the Ark of Noah which is set open in Christ and Noah receiveth them againe in Christ into the first Ark whence Adam departed 41. Moreover the Raven betokens the sharpe Law of Moses in the fiery Might under Gods Anger which binds and slays Man and brings him not into the Ark but the Dove betokens the Gospel of Christ which brings againe into the Ark and saves the life for the Mount Ararat signifieth also the Kingdome of Moses as the Figure and the Ark wherein the life is preserved signifieth the humanity of Christ 42. And he stayed yet other 7 dayes and againe he sent forth a Dove out of the Ark and it came to him about evening and lo shee had pluckt off an Olive leaf and brought it in her mouth And he stayed yet other seven dayes and sent forth a Dove which returned not to him any more The Spirit in Moses sheweth by these three Doves and the Raven which went forth out of the Ark a great Mystery which albeit he doth not clearly unfold yet for certain is couched therein The Raven doth also denote the Law of Moses in Nature which will remaine in its selfe and not returne in true resignation or selfe-deniall under the obedience of God but will enter in to God by its own power and wayes 43. The first Dove betokens the Propheticall Spirit which arose under Moses viz. under the outward Law and Offrings and directed againe through the Offrings into the Ark of Noah and Christ This Propheticall Spirit went along through the Office of Moses it indeed flew under Moses but with its Prophecy it went againe into the Ark as the first Dove by Noah flew indeed into the world but came againe into the Ark of Christ 44. The second Dove with the Olive-branch which also came againe to Noah into the Ark denotes the Word in the Covenant of Noah which came forth out of the holy Ark of God into this world viz. into our humanity and pluckt off an Olive-leaf in the world and brought it Noah that is it pluckt off a branch out of our humanity and tooke it into the holy Word viz. the mouth of God as the Dove the Olive-leaf and brought the branch to holy Noah that is to God the Father but that it was an Olive-leaf denoteth the unction of the holy Spirit that the same should anoint the humanity and bring it againe with this Dove into the holy Ark. 45. The third Dove which Noah let fly which came not againe to the Ark betokeneth the Kingdome of Antichrist upon the earth which is flowne forth out of the Ark with its Doctrine but its spirit and minde remaineth upon the earth in the fat grasse in selfe it indeed maketh devout shews to God and giveth good words but the man with sence and reason will not forsake the world and returne againe to the Ark they build themselves Pallaces without the Ark for the pleasure of the flesh and are devout in hypocrisie without the Ark and will be children by an outward adoption but they will not enter into the Ark but they say Christ is in the Ark he hath purchased and payd all we need onely to comfort our selves therewith he will bring us in well enough 46. The other party saith They have Christ in their works of hypocrisie they take the Ark with them when they fly out in their pleasure of the flesh all these remaine without the Ark in this world and come not againe to the Ark of Christ this the third Dove denotes for the Antichristian Kingdome walketh demurely in the shape of a Dove and Sheep but is onely a figure of Christs Kingdome which consists in spirit in power and is in the Ark. Mysterium Magnum Chap. 40. Pag. 313. 68. BY the Tribes or stems of the Saints in whom the divine Covenant hath opened it selfe viz. by the Patriarchs as Adam Noah Abraham Isaac and Jacob there are alwayes two Figures represented viz. Christ and Adam a good and an evill man 69. Cain Ham Ishmael and Esau were types of the corrupt man and Abel Sem Isaac and Jacob were types of Christ who manifested himselfe in this line and was set before the corrupt children of Adam as a light and Preacher to convert them 70. For God hath not sent his Sonne to condemne the world viz. the poore corrupt and lost man but he hath therefore sent him into the world among the ungodly crew of wicked men to teach and call them and those he will save who have a willing desire to heare even those who have but a little spark of divine Ens that is capable of hearing in them in the little spark that is in all these the quickning and reviving voice of Christ doth cry and call that is it blows up that spark that it may become a divine fire 71. And that we may open awide the eyes of the blinde selfe-titular-Christendome and also of the Jewes in their boasting that they may not so brag and stand upon their knowledge as if they were onely therefore Gods children because they know the Name of God and comfort themselves with the knowing it and condemne other people who are deprived of knowing as they know and have introduced another knowledge as they alas doe most blindely insomuch that one Nation and People doth exercise urge and evilly entreat another Know that Cain Ham Ishmael and Esau are the type or figure of the Turks and Heathen whom God blessed in Ishmael and gave them the Princely Dominions in his Kingdome of this world for to possesse and cast them out in their own contrived knowledge from the knowledge of Christs adopted as he cast out Ishmael but recalls them in the wombe by the Angel of the great Counsell to the Tree viz. to Gods goods that they should returne to him 72. For they lie shut up under the vaile of Christ as Christ did under the Leviticall Priesthood under Moses and as the Children of Israel under the Law were not justified through the Law but through him who was hid under the Law and thus are they now hidden under the true knowledge and lie as it were shut up in the Mothers wombe 73. But the Angel of the great Counsell calls them by their Mother Hagar viz. by the Kingdome of Nature that shee the Mother with the childe must againe returne home to Sarai viz. to the Tree that is to the one onely God who hath borne his Sonne of the free Thus they come as it were under the vaile in the Mothers wombe to the free viz. to the one onely God who hath borne unto them of the free Woman the Lord
38. Out of an Epis vers 38. COncerning their desire about the affaires at Prague where I was present at the coming in of the new a Palsgrave Frederick King the same into Sagan you have understood that it is already done he came in at the Fort upon Reâ—shin of Shlan and was received of all the three Orders with great Solemnity as the Custome hath been formerly among all Kings 39. I exhort you to heed well what the Prophet Ezekiel hath written in the 38. and 39. Chap Whether the time of the gathering together upon the seven Mountaines in b Confused Christendome Babel be not at hand especially in respect of the Seven c Bethlem Gabor Berger who should get help from the Turk and very easily come to the Ryne-strome 40. Where then the great overthrow of the children of Babel may come to passe where two great Rods of God shall appeare the one by warre the other by mortalitie in which Babel shall be ruined sheweth the Spirit of the Lord in all those who have prophecied before us 41. Although I account the Election of a right Germane Emperour must be yet a little while deferred and in the meane time great d This is come to passe in Germany warre and contention also desolation of many Cities strong Holds and potent Countries shall follow so far as even now is the right time of which the Spirit prophecieth which we doe not so punctually understand 42. For a thousand yeares before God is as one day the Spirit seeth all things nigh at hand then supposeth the e The Astrall spirit or apprehension of Reason Sidereall man that it shall be instantly yet it stands in Gods Counsell 43. However we know for certain the ruine of the Citie Babel to be very nigh and it appeareth to us as if the time were even instantly at hand whereas yet we cannot fully apprehend the Counsell of God but as a Pilgrim that is a day in a Countrey cannot learne all even so it is with us For God keepeth the time and houre to himselfe and yet sheweth by his Spirit the wonders that are to come 29. Out of an Epist vers 29. BUt seeing God hath promised by the Prophets especially in Joel that he will powre forth his Spirit in the last dayes upon all flesh therefore the time is to be considered 30. I say as I have knowne it that whosoever at present will dye to himselfe him shall the Spirit of the Lord according to Joels prophecy apprehend and manifest his wonders by him therefore if any be in Earnest he shall finde it by experience 31. Yet let every one be faithfully warned that if the light of God doe arise in him that he continue stedfast in great humility in resignation namely in the death of Christ c. 36. I give you out of good affection to know that this present time is seriously to be taken into consideration for the Seventh Angel in the Revelation hath prepared his Trumpet the Powers of Heaven be in Peculiar Motion Moreover both gates stand open and light and darknesse are in great desire as every thing is taken so shall it goe in 37. At what the one shall exceedingly rejoyce the other shall mock at it whereupon followeth the sore and severe judgement upon Babel 7. Out of an Epist vers 7. HAppy are those who are comprehended under the sound of the Trumpet which hath already sounded for there cometh such an earnestnesse after that Babel and her convention together with all pride ambition falshood and unrighteousnesse shall drinke an earnest Draught and even that which shee hath filled c. 3. Out of an Epist to Carel van Endern vers 3. IT is knowne to me that the time is nigh and at hand that the contentions about Religion shall enter into the Temperature but with great ruination of the false Kingdome in Babel that hath set up it selfe in Christs stead together with other great alterations concerning which although men perhaps will hardly beleeve me yet in a short time shall appeare c. * 40 Quest the 39. Quest EVery Age hath had its Seekers who have sought the Mystery but it hath been a long time very darke in Babel 5. Now for these two hundred yeares it hath begun againe to be manifest in that the fall of Antichrist hath been foreseene and men have begun to Storme Babel on one side but her strong Tower standeth still fast indeed the Whore hath been somewhat discovered yet her Beast hath but growne the more lusty 6. Therefore there is yet a wonderfull time neare at hand wherein all things shall be altered Many great Mountaines and hills shall be made a plaine and a Fountaine shall flow out of Zion wherein the afflicted and distressed shall drinke and be refreshed 7. And they shall be guided to the fresh Pasture by one onely Crooke and the Shepheard shall rejoyce with the Sheepe that God is so gracious 8. At that time Silver and Gold shall be as common as in Solomons time and his wisdome shall governe the whole Earth this is a Wonder 23. Out of an Epist vers 23. IF the world were not so blinde it might know the wonderfull Beeing of God in all creatures but now that it doth so rage and rave it doth it wholly against it selfe and against the holy Spirit of God at whose light they shall once be astonished they shall not hinder the Sonne which the travelling Mother bringeth forth in her old age for this the Heaven declareth 24. God shall f Or make him glorious enlighten him against all the raging and raving of the Devill and his g Splendour glory light shall reach from the East unto the West I write not of my selfe for I onely foreshew that this is at hand and shall come The sixt Text of his Booke entituled The Abridgement of the heavenly earthly Mystery 49. WHen we consider and ponder thus with our selfe we finde the strife of all Essences that the one is a continuall loathing of the other and is an Enemy to the other 50. For every will desireth a purity without Turba in the other Essence and yet it hath the Turba in it selfe and is also the loathing of the other 51. And then the greatest gets power over the smallest and keepeth it in subjection and except it get rid of it the strong ruleth over the weake 52. Thus the weake doth also run and seeketh the limit of the Oppressour and it will be freed from constraint and thus the limit is sought by all creatures which is hid in the Mystery 53. And even hence ariseth all the power of this world so that the one continually ruleth over the other and this was not commanded nor appointed by the highest Good in the beginning but it grew from the Turba 54. Whereupon Nature afterward acknowledged it for her own Essence which was borne out of her and
shee hath given Lawes to it so to propagate it selfe further in the received Government 55. Where then this birth is ascended to the Kingly degree and hath so further sought the Abysse that is the one till it is become a Monarchy that is Empire and there it is climing still and would be onely one alone and not many and though it selfe be in many yet the first Source whence all is generated will rule over all and will be one onely Lord over all Governments 56. And being the same Seeking was one onely Government in the beginning and yet in processe of time hath severed it selfe into many according to the Effences therefore the Multiplicity seekes againe the unity and it is certainly borne in the sixt number of the Crown that is in the fixt thousandt yeare in the figure not at the end 57. But in the houre of the day in which the Creation of the Wonders were finished that is when the Wonders of the Turba are at the End A Lord is borne who shall Governe the whole World yet by many Offices 58. And there the Magistracy that is growne up of it selfe and the Oppressour shall be sought after for the smallest which hath lien under is also run to the limit and even then all things sever themselves for they be at the limit and there can be no stay or calling backe 59. Also the Turba being the wrath is sought by every creature for the same is also with the loathing of the Creature run to the limit and is now manifest namely at the limit in the midst of the number of the Crowne in the sixt thousandt yeare a little above and not under in the day and houre when the Creation was finished in the Mystery and in the Mystery was set as a looking-glasse of Eternitie in the Wonders 60. That is on the sixt day past noon even there the Mystery with the Wonders stand open and it is seene and knowne where then the Purity shall drive out the Turba a Time till the beginning passe into the end and then the Mystery is a Wonder in Figures c. In his consideration upon the Booke of Isaias Steefel he Prophecieth concerning Babel and Zion Pag. 47. thus 104. THat the Author mentioneth that this carnall Babel shall fall and a Fountaine arise in Zion out of the true Jerusalem is truly so and the time is already come about that that break in pieces that is growne up of and to it selfe without divine Order for it hath attained its age and limit the beginning hath found the end the middle shall be manifest against which no fighting or defending availeth but seeing the childe of sin and perdition doth so rage against it it must therefore ruine its own selfe in its rage 105. But if it would enter into the beginning it should then remaine and its Wonder would onely appeare but being it is growne up in pride covetousnesse envy and in all manner of iniquitie and cunning mischiefe for what use shall this evill Beast be it is not fit for the Sacrifice of God also it will not be converted that it might get an humane heart 106. Therefore the Lord doth proclaime that his children must goe out from it for the Lord will terribly shake the earth and overthrow Babel and a Fountaine shall flow out of Zion to refresh the thirsty soule for the miserable shall be refreshed and eat in his own Pasture 107. The Oppressour shall be destroyed yet thou shalt rejoyce a little while for thou art naught from thy youth and onely seekest the Limit in the Wonder as thy beginning was so shall also thy end be he that is blinde will not see this but sleepe till the day dawne 108. Christ said Doest thou thinke that when the Son of Man shall come that he shall finde faith upon the Earth Therefore the time of the end is an evill dreggy Setling and it will not be meet Zion save onely in the sanctified children of Christ for the beginning and the end be just like one another 109. The wonders were in the beginning manifest with the high Tongue and the Signature was h Or highly perfectly knowne This cometh againe at the end but we understand also thereby a good and an evill time when the gates of all the Three Principles shall stand open as wee likewise see this in the beginning by Cain and Abel therefore let every one have a care what he speake teach and write for all things shall be proved by the Highest Tongue 110. But when we speake of the Temple of Christ and of the fountaine flowing out of Zion we doe not meane a place in one Countrey onely for the Temple of Christ is every where wee understand among all tongues and languages Albeit in one place the tongues shall be brought to an higher degree then in another all according to the property of the people according as the Spirit is in man 111. For the Temple of Christ is within us wee must heare Christ teach in us if Christ teach not in us then is all outward i The fine hypocrisie of the mouth lip-labour to no purpose and spoken into the aire 112. Therefore let no man thinke that it will so come to passe that men shall come and perforce teach and drive in the Holy Spirit into men No it is said To day when you heare the voice of the Lord harden not your hearts and eares waite for no other time for this is the time of your visitation 113. Incline your eares and hearts to the Temple of Christ in you cast away your abominations and false will from you and bring your will with earnestnesse through Christ unto the Father and purpose never to enter any more into the iniquity viz. into pride covetousâ—esse envy anger and falshood regard not the highnesse of this world and humble your selves under the hand of the Lord and in love towards the needy c. 129. Loving brethren doe not jest at it and hold it for a fiction it is known in the Sacred Ternary in the pure fountaine out of Zion Let no man waite for a golden time when the holy Spirit shall presse or breath it selfe perforce into the beastiall will of the hardened and obstinate that will onely live in the lust of the flesh O no this cometh not to passe 130. He that will heare the Holy Spirit teach from the mouth of another he must before bring his will into the Holy Spirit even then the Holy Spirit teacheth to him inwardly from the mouth of another This we see on the day of Pentecost in those that heard St. Peter those whose will was bent inward and desired the Kingdome of God in them the Spirit of Christ preached from Peters mouth but those whose spirit was bent into this world the spirit passed over who said the men are drunke that they so speake 131. The time is already that Enoch teacheth and Noah proclaimeth the Deluge there
is no other marke or signe save the signe of Elias what doth the world gape at so much and suffers its eares in vaine to be filled with the Starres all is to no purpose 132. Whosoever will enter in with Zion and praise God in Jerusalem he hath now an acceptable time the Seventh Trumpet hath already sounded the Well-spring of Israel is open onely let no man thinke that the sound of the Trumpet shall come from this or that place for as the lightning ariseth and shineth to the East even so from rhe beginning to the end is the coming of the Son of man 133. Let no man expect onely the outward Prophet he appeareth inwardly in the Spirit the outward man will not know him for he standeth in the number of the Crowne and preacheth in the Mystery He is already knowne and found he that desireth to see him let him seeke him in himselfe and let Babel goe he shall finde him c. Aurora Page 204. LO I tell thee a Mystery It is already the time that the Bridegroom crowneth his Bride ghesse where lyeth the Crowne towards the North for amidst in the Sharpe-astringent quality the light becomes cleare and shining but whence comes the bridegroom out of the midst where the heat produceth the light and goeth towards the North in the Astringent quality where the light becomes cleare and shining what doe they towards the South they are fallen asleep in the heat but a Tempest shall rouse them up between thâ—â— many shall have a terrible death or end What doe they of the West their bitter quality will blend it selfe with the other but when they taste the sweet water their spirit becomes meeke What doe they of the East Thou hast ever been an haughty bride borne in the beginning thou thoughtest thy selfe to be formerly too faire thou livest with or like the rest Aurora Page 567. THe precious man Moses writeth That God made man of the dust k Ger. erdenklos of a lump of earth massa terrea of the earth as the learned have rendred it but he was not by when it was done but this I must say that Moses hath written very right but the true understanding what the Earth was made of remained hidden in the Letter to Moses and his successours even to this time also it was hidden to Adam while he was yet in Paradise But now l Viz. What ever hath been hidden under the vaile of Moses and the Parables of Christ it will be wholly manifest for the heart of God hath beset the chamber of death and will soone breake through therefore some dawnings of the day will now more and more breake through in some mens hearts and make knowne the day but when this Aurora shall shine from the East to the West then there will be no more time left but the Sunne of Gods heart ariseth and will Ra Ra Ra P. in this cold place and with him in R. P. These are hidden words and are to be understood onely in the language of Nature The Authors exposition of these places taken out of a Letter c. 6. COncerning the interpretation of some words and also of that which you desire of me which are specified in my Booke called Aurora which have very hidden meanings the knowledge whereof was given me of the most High I give you to understand that at present it is not convenient to write at large and expressely thereof in letters seeing the time is dangerous and the Enemy of Christ doth horribly rage and rave till a little time be past yet I will give you a short hint further to consider of it 7. As first there is a twofold meaning of the Northerne Crowne The first pointeth at the Crowne of life viz. the Spirit of Christ which shall be manifest in the midst of the great darknesse viz. in the Contrition or distresse of the sensible nature of the Conscience where a Peculiar Motion is present even then cometh the bridegroom viz. the power of Christ in the midst of such a Motion 8. The other overture is a Figure of the outward Kingdome where the great confusions entanglements and contentions shall be when as the Nations shall stand in Controversie There also is the Figure viz. the victory signified as it stands in the spirituall Figure how it shall goe and what People shall at last conquer and how in the meane while in such lamentable time of Tribulation Christ shall be made manifest and knowne and that after and in such lamentable time of Tribulation the great Mysteries shall be revealed that men shall be able to know even in Nature the hidden God in Trinity in which knowledge the strange Nations shall be converted and turne Christians also therein is signified how the Sectarian Contentions in Religion shall be destroyed in such manifestation for all gates will be set open and even then shall all unprofitable Praters which at present lie as so many bolts before the truth be done away and all shall acknowledge and know Christ which manifestation shall be the last then the Sun of life shall shine upon all Nations and even then the Beast of iniquitie with the Whore end their dayes which is signified under the Characters Ra Ra Ra P. in R. P. as is to be seen in the Revelation 9. Wee dare not at present make this large interpretation more cleare all will shew it selfe and then men shall see what it was for there is yet clean another time 13. A Letter at the end of the way to Christ KNow That a Lilly blossometh unto you yee Northern Countries if you destroy it not with the Sectarian Contention of the Learned then it will become a great Tree among you but if you shall rather choose to contend then to know the true God then the ray passeth by and hitteth onely some and then afterward you shall be forced to draw water for the thirst of your soules among strange Nations 14. If you will take it rightly into consideration then my writings shall give you great furtherance and direction thereto and the Signate-Star above your Pole shall helpe you for its time is come about or borne 15. I will freely give you what the Lord hath given me onely have a care and employ it aright it will be a witnesse for you against the mocker Let no man looke upon my person it is a meer gift of God bestowed not onely for my sake but also for your sake and all those that shall get to reade them 16. Let no man gape any longer after the time it is already come about whom it hitteth him it hitteth whosoever waketh he seeth it and he that sleepeth seeth it not the time is appeared and will soone appeare he that waketh seeth it many have already felt it but there must first a great Tribulation passe over before it be wholly manifest the cause is the Contention of the Learned who tread the Cup of Christ
under-foot and contend about a childe that never was worse since men were this shall be manifest therefore let no honest man defile himselfe with such contention there is a fire from the Lord therein who will consume it and himselfe reveale the Truth 95. * 3. Prin. Chap. 25. Therefore let this be told you yee Jewes Turkes and other Nations yee need not looke for any other there is no other time at hand but the time of the Lilly and its Signe is the Signe of Elias therefore take heed in what Spirit you live least the fire of anger devoure and consume you it is high time to cast Jezabel with her whoredomes out of the house least you receive the wages of the whore and as you revile one another so you devoure one another Truly if these contentions and selvish courses of oppression and hypocrisie be not suddenly stayed the fire will burne out extreamly upon Babel and then there will be no remedy till the anger of God eat up and consume all whatsoever is in it 96. Therefore let every one enter into himselfe and not speake concerning others laying the blame upon them onely and account them false but looke that he turne himselfe and see that he be not found in the anger of the Devourer else if he should say ha ha looke how Babel burnes then must he also be burnt for he is fuell for that fire and whosoever feeleth a thought in himselfe that doth but wish for the Anger or the heavy judgement of God to destroy others that thought or wish proceedeth from Babel 97. Therefore it is very hard to know Babel every one supposeth that he is not in it and yet the Spirit sheweth me that Babel encompasseth the whole Earth therefore let every one looke to his own wayes and not hunt after covetousnesse for the Oppressour destroyeth it and the Stormer consumeth it No mans wise Counsell helpeth any more all the wisdome of this world is folly for the fire is from the anger of God your wisdome will turne to your hurt and scorn 82. The Spirit declareth that if you doe not leave off this m About your opinions Ceremonies your Wolves in Sheeps-cloathing and your god Mammon Contention you shall have no other Signe given you save the Signe of Elias in fire in zeale for the zeale shall devoure you and your contention must devoure your own selves you must be forced even quite to consume your selves therefore are you not mad are you not Brethren and all in Christ If you did converse in Love what should you need to strive about your Native Countrey in which you dwell O! leave off your Cause is evill in the sight of God and yee are all found to be in Babel be advised the day breaketh how long will you keep company with that Adulterous Whore Arise your Noble Virgin is adorned in her Orient Garment of Pearle Shee weareth a Lilly which is most delightsome become Brethren and shee will adorne you indeed wee have really seen her and in her name wee write c. 25. HEarken all yee who call your selves the Apostles of Christ M. M. Ch. 62. hath Christ sent you to warre and stirre up Contention that you should fight for Temporall goods and outward Might and Glory Is that your Authoritie John 20. when he gave you the sword of the Spirit did he command you to doe so hath he not sent you to declare and proclaime his Peace which he hath brought unto us What will he say when he shall see that your Apostolicall Heart hath put on Armour and that you have stirred up and provoked your worldly Kings and Princes to the sword and warre and have given them free leave out of Christian Liberty shall he finde you thus acting in his Service doe you as the Disciples of Christ 26. Are you not become the Apostles of Gods Anger Whither will you betake your selves with your shame Doe you not see that you are turned perjured treacherous and adulterous to Christ who taught you Peace where is your Christian Virginity Where are your Evangelicall fruits Where is your love and righteousnesse your patience and meeknesse your exhorting to the wayes of Peace and piety love and holinesse with all long suffering and forbearance is not the true and sincere way to the new-birth made onely a darke historicall lip-labour an outward application of a promise how hath the world traced themselves in a Maze of their own phancies and enslaved their noble mindes to your hypocrisie Where is your selfe deniall your powerfull prayer and faith your rendring blessing for cursing praying for persecuting your overcoming evill with good thinke upon your account at the last day and now amend 79. * 40. Quest Qu. 30. HOw will you be able to stand here yee high Schooles and Doctors even all of you who have set up your selves in Christs stead and have so proudly wrangled about Christs Cup also about Christs Doctrine and n Way of worship honour that you have provoked and put on the Princes of your Land who are the Ordinance of God to warre and bloud-shed for a few words sake which you your selves have forged 80. Where is Christs teaching and Spirit of love who said Love one another for thereby men shall know that you are my Disciples Where is your Love Looke upon your bloudy instigations wherewith you have enticed men to Battle and have led the world astray from love and unanimity 81. Yee have made rents and divisions so that Kings have been at variance and enmity for your pride sake in that you have wrested the words of Christ and have not regarded whether you have had Christs Spirit and will or no and therefore you above all others shall give an heavy account for you have known the will of the Lord and have not done it you have run and thrust your selves into Christs office meerely to get profit favour and honour you have not regarded the Spirit of God therefore the Spirit calleth you Babel a Confusion of all those that live 82. You have set the whole world at odds and whereas you should have taught them love you have taught them contention and strife so that one brother hath hated and persecuted another for your fables sake O! how is the Name of Christ dishonoured for your Contentions sake Whether will you betake your selves and where will you abide when this shall be set before your eyes and the whole world cry wo wo to you 39. * The latter end of the 13. Chap. of his booke call'd The Threefold life YEE great scholastique Rabbies and Masters who have the pre-eminence let it be told you there cometh one hereafter that will baptize you with the fire of Anger because you doe deny his power yee have a very heavy account for Christs Testaments will you not depart from your Consultations and enter into the Temple of Christ then you must be wholly cast away 40. There were very
then we see that they since the Turkes departed from them have been but one People before God in holinesse and righteousnesse with different names 93. And they are the two Sonnes to one whereof the Father said Goe and doe this and he said yea but did it not and to the other also doe this and he said no but did it which doth so highly advance and magnifie the Turkes in the Kingdome of Nature which the blinde Christian world doth not understand 94. Not that we justifie the Turkes and say that they should remaine in their blindnesse no but to the painted Christians wee declare that they are alike with them before God in that they are as blinde in respect of Christs Kingdome as the Turkes as it plainly shews it selfe in that Christendome is full of strife and contention wrangling and jangling about Christs Deity and humanity and abominably prophaneth and hideously unhalloweth the holy Name in his humanity and use it onely for a forme and custome to sweare Covenant and protest also to Idolatry superstition and hypocrisie and are gone from the sword of the holy Spirit unto a bloud-thirsty confounding Sword wherein is nothing but contending and contemning one another and the whole titular Christendome is turned into meere sects and orders where one sect doth despise and brand another for unrighteous and thus they have made of Christendome a meere murthering Den full of blasphemies about Christs person and have bound the Spirit of Christ to the formes and orders of disputation and have set foolish Reason over Christs Kingdome to be a Master or Judge of the understanding or meaning of Gods Spirit in the holy Scriptures and mysteries 95. But ought we to speake so of Christendome and the Turkes as if they were alike Thus we say the Turke is openly an Ishmalite and mocker of Christs humanity and holdeth him not for the Sonne of Man and God too for he understands not the heavenly Ens in the person of Christ 96. But the Sects of Christendome doe indeed cover themselves with Christs Mantle but doe attach him in his humanity and Deity and revile him in his whole person teare and rend one another with words and swords about his person the one will have it this way another that way every one will be Master over his words and spirit and so deride Christ in his members and thereby destroy all brotherly love and are as revolting rebellious and fugitive Ishmaelites as the Turkes and live in their selfish will and serve the Kingdome of Nature in their selfe-hood selfe-interests and pleasure 97. A Christian must be dead with Christ to selfe and be risen againe in Christ and be borne anew of Christ and to have put on Christ that he be a Christian in Christ in the Spirit and heavenly flesh of Christ according to the internall spirituall man 98. But instead hereof men have put on Babel and the Antichrist and doe boast themselves of their Ordinances of the divine orders in the performances of devout duties in lip labour and much prating and in the Stone-houses of Churches and in the Cathedralls and Cloysters of Christendome where indeed they doe counterfeit somewhat of Christ seeing that they there reade the writings which the Apostles left behinde them but afterward with their Preaching for the most part they foist in the Kingdome and Government of Nature with brawling and disputing and spend the time with disputing confuting and contending about Sects and the different mentall Idolls or opinions insomuch that one party is brought wholly to condemne another and the eares and hearts of the hearers are so infected with gall and bitternesse that one Sect wilfully opposeth another and cryes it downe for devillish whence nothing but wars and disdainfull provocations doe arise to the desolating of Countries and Cities 99. Thus they are all alike before God and lie as it were shut up in Hagar in the dead Reason except the true children of God which verily are here and there to be found among all Nations and Sects but wholly simple and despised also covered under Christs Crosse to the Reason-wise-world 100. For like as the foure Elements receive the power or influence of the Sunne into them and in the substance the body yet not the Sunne is seene albeit it worketh therein so also the Spirit of Christ is hid in the children of God but as an hearb springing from the earth doth by the vertue of the Sunne put forth a faire blossome and fruit so likewise Gods children out of their plaine homelinesse or deformity to the lewd world's or prating hypocrites eye In the 27 Chapter of the Three Principles what the Lilly is may be discerned 32. THe Lilly will not be found in strife or warres but in a friendly humble loving Spirit together with good sound * Wall-grounded convincing satisfactory Reason This will grow to the throwing downe Babel and the building up of Zion Reason this will dispell and drive away the smoake of the Devill and flourish in its time Therefore let none thinke that when strife goeth on and he getteth the upper-hand now it is well and right and he that is under and subdued let him not thinke sure I am found to be in the wrong I should now goe to the other opinion or side and helpe that party to prosecute the other no that is not the way such a one is meerly in Babel 33. But let every one enter into himselfe and labour to be a righteous man and feare God and doe right and consider that this his worke shall appeare in Heaven before God and that he standeth every moment before the face of God and that all his works shall follow after him and then the Lilly of God springeth and groweth and the world standeth in its Seculum AMEN Mysterium Magnum Chap. 41. Pag. 326. 43. LOving Brethren be instructed aright the God of Love he will not the death of a poore corrupt and lost man but hath powred forth his best Treasure which he had in himselfe and is himselfe in Grace over all men like as the Sunne doth shine unto the good and evill but the wicked doth corrupt and spoile the * His precious Image Treasure in himselfe and will not receive it but sucketh and taketh in the Ens of the Serpent full of vanity and is baptized with the fire of Gods Anger in the will of selfe 44. But if he went with his own-selfe-will into the death of Christ and desired from the bottome of his heart to die from his selfe and own will in Gods mercy and cast his whole dependance and trust upon God and thought that he had nothing of his Own in this earthly Cottage but that he was onely a servant of God and his Neighbour in all that he possesseth and forsooke in his minde the propriety and selfe-interest he should soone be baptized with the holy Spirit and put on Christ in his will 45. But these mischievous earthly
temporall goods temporall honour and pleasure of the flesh captivate him in the Ens of the Serpent so that he is not capable of the Baptisme of the Holy Ghost 46. Also the selfe-elected unfitted corrupt Teachers are wholly blinde herein and teach onely the husk viz. the casket or sheath of regeneration they will be outwardly adopted children albeit they live onely in the will of selfe and will teach the holy Spirit into the Beast of selfe-will which yet is no wayes capable of the holy Spirit understanding nothing either of Baptisme or the Lords Supper the New birth is strange unto them they deny the divine essentiall in-dwelling of Christs Spirit in Gods children viz. the Temple of God in man and stand before the Jewes when as they should declare unto them what Christ is in us what Baptisme and the Lords Supper is just like pictured Christians or as Idolls 47. For the Jewes know that God hath spoken with their Fathers and given them the Circumcision and the Covenant there they stick but could the Christians fundamentally demonstrate to them what the Covenant and Circumcision is essentially and effectually together with their Offrings they would forsake the Signe and enter into the Substance 48. But that it hath so fallen out that both the Jewes and also the Christians have walked in blindnesse even till this last time and so also the Turkes who by reason of the blindnesse wrangling and ungodlinesse of the Christians have turned themselves unto Reason and Nature God hath therefore permitted because the Christians and Jewes both in the Old and New Testament received or appropriated to themselves the Covenant and the Seale of the Covenant in the outward shell onely viz. in the vessell or literall apprehension and lived onely to the outward earthly mortall man they alwayes minded and provided for the earthly Kingdome and life more then for the Eternall 49. They would understand in the husk viz. in the outward letter what God hath spoken and chose to themselves Reason-wise people which were well gifted and learned in the outward formall logicall and Notionall understanding of the letter who had not the Spirit and power of Gods Word and life in the new-birth in them but onely the spirit of selfe pride and the earthly Belly-god contriving how they might be rich in Christs poverty upon the Earth these have blinded them so that both among the Jewes and Christians men have minded and loved onely the earthly Ens. 50. Therefore God hath permitted that the Wonders of Nature in the power of his Anger should be opened and brought forth in them and that they should thus stick in blindnesse yet in controversie so that the name and memory of his Covenant might not quite be extinguished and one Nation evilly to entreat and exercise another in contention and contrariety whereby often times a greene twig hath sprung from the right understanding which hath been strange unto them by reason of their received opinion and they have contemned and persecuted it for the earthly man in selfe is not worthy of the holy Covenant and Seale 51. And seeing God knew very well that they would run of themselves without being sent of him and would abuse the holy Ens in the Covenant thereupon the Vaile of Moses hath beset the Jewes and the Tower Babel with the Antichrist viz. the outward Christ instead of the holy Ens in the Covenant viz. Gods presence the Christians so that they have been evermore seeking in this same Antichrist what God might be in his Covenant Will and Beeing 52. Thus they have been exercised in contention and persecution in that they have persecuted one another yet so as that Gods children have sprung forth in the Crosse and Christ hath been inwardly manifest to them but outwardly Babel hath stood still both among the Jewes Christians and Turkes the antixt is onely the same among all for he is the Letter-God wherein the selfe-will seeketh and worshippeth God in the huske 53. Heare now therefore yee Christians Jewes Turkes and Heathen even all Nations of the earth What now yet this once more for a farewell in this worlds beeing is freely tendred unto you in the visitation of the mercifull God in the voice of his Trumpet by his Love-Will and Spirit the Sound of the Trumpet concerns you all let it enter into your eares and doe but open your eares and hearts a little from selfe and then you shall heare the Sound in you It soundeth through all even to the ends of the Earth but no selfe-will heares it 54. The simple Childrens way to divine Wisdome The first and chiefest step to a safe well-grounded-Reformation in Church and Common-wealth The onely divine way wherein man may see God in his Word Beeing and Will is this that man become wholly One in himselfe and in his own will forsake all whatsoever he himselfe is or hath let it be authority might power honour beauty riches money goods father mother brother sister wife and childe body and life and become wholly a Nothing to his Selfe He must freely resigne up all and be poorer then a bird in the aire which yet hath a Nest the true man must have none for he must travell away from this world that he be no more to himselfe in this world He must be a Nothing to the worlds selfe and interests for the Substance of this world which he possesseth for a propriety is the Tower of Babel and the Antichrist wherein men will be their own God and with this selfe-contrived God they will ascend upon the Tower to Heaven and place themselves with or for a God Understand it thus 55. It is not meant that one should run from house and home from wife children sisters c. and fly out of the world or so forsake his goods as not to remaine in them but the own or selfe will which possesseth all this for a propriety that he must kill and annihilate 56. And thinke that all that of which he is a Master is not at all his own let him win or loose be rich or poore wise or simple high or low let him have something or nothing that he esteeme all these things alike a faire fine Garment as a course patcht one the prosperity of this world as the adversitie life as death his authority as a servants a Kingly Crowne as an old Hatt and forsake it all in his minde and not account it for his owne 57. But thinke and wholly resigne up his will thereinto that he is but a servant of all whatsoever he hath and onely a Steward of that calling profession office and order that it is Gods and his brethren in common that he onely serveth God and his brethren therein and all whatsoever they conferre and put upon him be so received of him as that it may conduce to the generall brotherly Order and Profession and that God may make such Orders in this world as a figure of the
consuming fire if his wrath be stirred up according to this same property he desireth to consume and devoure all that moveth and enkindleth it selfe therein And from this property God bad Israel fight and smite the Heathens for his Anger was set on fire in them and was as wood cast into the fire which the fire desireth to consume 10. Therefore the wrath of God bad one Nation slay another that it might out of his wrath be taken away otherwise the fire of his Anger would have enkindled it selfe as hapned to the five Kingdomes of Sodom and Gomorra Thus the Wrath of God did satiate it selfe in the life of the wicked which it devoured into it selfe in that they slew one another 11. As it yet now adayes so comes to passe that oftentimes men cry unto God for to give them successe and victory against their enemies that they might murther them but God giveth them not victory therein but the sword of his Anger which they awaken with their prayers and will were they true Men and children of God they would need no warre for the holy Spirit wageth not warre but he onely loveth and giveth peace but according to the property of Anger he consumeth all ungodlinesse and is yet thereby onely blowne or stirred up c. 14. Thus we must understand how the children of the Saints have waged warre against the crew of wicked men and drove them out viz. in the Anger 's Property which managed its sword by them to blot out the Heathen and Generation of Haâ— for Abraham went out with his whole house and People against the Heathen who had carried away Loth his brothers Sonne captive and he smote the Heathen and delivered his brother This was done in the zeale of God which thus delivered his children through the might of his Anger for what conduceth to the wicked for destruction that conduceth to holy men for life and deliverance 15. But that those who will be called Christians who ought in and with Christ to be dead to the Anger and Wrath of God in Christs death doe wage warre they doe it not as Christians but as Heathens no Christian warreth for if he be a Christian then he is dead in and with Christs death to the foure Elements of Gods Anger in Selfe and borne a new man in Christs Spirit of Love who liveth in righteousnesse in love and patience and not to himselfe but to God in Christ 16. For a true Christian leadeth his conversation and will in Heaven in the life and spirit of Christ as St Paul saith Our conversation is in Heaven but when the Christians doe wage warre they doe it from the Heathenish property and not from Christs property for a Christian is not of this world his Kingdome is in heaven and he is dead in Christ to the world according to the new spirituall man in him the Heathen viz. the halfe devillish man who hath his Kingdome in this world who never hath room enough upon the Earth who liveth in the foure Elements of Gods Anger viz. in pride covetousnesse envy and wrath desireth in the Christians to warre fight and kill 17. St. Paul saith Give your members to be weapons of Righteousnesse for why doe men fight for the Kingdome of this world and yet Christ said his Kingdome was not of this world so also his childrens Kingdome in him is not of this world Now then if we give our body and soule for weapons of Gods Anger and seek onely thereby Selfe interests liberties and priviledges of Mammon and slay one another for the Kingdome of this world I thinke we are herein Christians indeed with the mouth but the heart and soule is an heathen and not borne out of Christs Spirit 18. When Abraham had smote the Heathen he desired nothing of the goods which he took but restored to the King of Sodom what the Heathen had taken from him and was onely zealous in the Lord he did not fight for Countrey and Kingdome but to deliver his brother This was a true zeale which the Lord drove in him he did not stand up and fight for Countrey or Citie and albeit he obtained it he desired it not but went againe unto his own place Mysterium Magnum Chap. 51. 44. OUr knowledge must be filled and abound with the Love of Christ that we love one another else knowledge is not at all available if I bring not my knowledge with the Desire into the Love of God wherewith he hath Loved us in Christ and Love my Neighbour in the Love of God in Christ with that Love wherewith God generally Loveth us and Loved us when we were his Enemies then I have not as yet the Love of God dwelling in me 45. But how will he Love his Brother who contemneth him for his knowledge sake whereas yet God Loved us when we knew nothing of his Love If a man hath not this Love of God in him wherewith God Loved us when we knew him not why doth he boast then of Gods Adoption If he be the childe of God then he hath the free Love of God wherewith God Loveth all things if he hath it not he is not then yet capable of the adoption Now then if any one contemneth and condemneth his brother which hath not as yet his knowledge how can he boast of the Love of God wherewith God Loved his Enemies in Christ wherewith Christ prayed for his Enemies Mysterium Magnum Chap. 44. 6. WHen God will punish a Land he first sends them Messengers and exhorts them to repentance and declares unto them his Grace soon after he sends them the Angel of Righteousnesse who tryeth them whether they be capable of the grace that is tendred to them and representeth unto them judgement with threats of their ruine also with denouncing of great warre and plagues that he will blot and root them out if they doe not Returne and Repent and sheweth them by his Messengers the light and way of Righteousnesse and suffers them to run on in the light that is tendred to them till they be weary and glutted and hold it onely for a common thing and an history and againe become a Sodom 7. And then he sends them both Angells together to wit the Angel of Righteousnesse and the Angel of truth and first threatneth them and exhorts them and setteth the judgement before them but when they are wholly a Sodom he leaveth off from the outward Figure and lets them fill up their measure and then it seems as if the Sunne was risen upon their Sodom and now it should be good but even then saith the Angel of truth in his children hasten and goe out the punishment and ruine is at hand 8. Thus wee declare unto thee Babel that God hath already long since sent thee Messengers and with the declaration of the Gospel hath tendred thee his grace and therewith also hath mightily threatned thee with the punishment of thy ruine but thou hast made a